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It’s most often called the Spy House or the Floating Glass Home. Perhaps the Bat Cave would make a better comparison. Access to 32013 Point Place is an elaborate, secretive affair that starts with a garage door opener.

The $10 million Laguna Beach, Calif. compound sits completely hidden from the street below it. The only sign that you have arrived at the Floating Glass Home is a wooden garage door quietly nestled off the side of a private road. When the door opens, you drive your car into the space and onto a hydraulic auto lift. The lift then drops you underground into the entryway of a guesthouse. Leave the car parked there (on display, if you will), and then meander down the winding subterranean path to the main house. Perched on a cliff with 180 degree views of the coastline, the main house is comprised of glass curtain walls and cantilevered floors that jut out over the ocean below, giving the impression of home “floating” above the beach below it.

“This is perfect for a buyer who doesn’t want people to know they are home,” says Donna Pfanner, the Coldwell Banker Previews International agent representing the $10 million property. “It’s like living in a piece of artwork or a sculpture.” Or a safe house crafted for a superhero like Bruce Wayne.

While you’ll have to wait a few more weeks for the latest Batman film ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, you can take your pick of real-life lairs sure to inspire a comic book fantasy. We culled through striking and unusual properties both on the market and off capable of making a would-be super villain or superhero salivate. With help from the folks at Realtor.com, Coldwell Banker Previews International, Sotheby’s International Realty and others, we unearthed properties from around the world touting architectural designs, outrageous security features, exclusive locations and high-tech gadgetry one would surely demand if looking to rule to world.

Some of the most lair-like places look surprisingly normal to an unsuspecting eye. Take the Silo Home in Saranac, N.Y. “I actually could fly you in and you would think it is just a normal home,” Bruce Francsico, half of the development duo that owns the Adirondack Mountain property, told Forbes in November. “You wouldn’t know this was a missile silo until you get inside and start walking down and realize the stairs just keep going.”

The Silo Home, asking a mere $750,000, once served as an Atlas-F Missile storage system for the U.S. government during the Cold War. Sitting underneath the ground level main house lies a “007 secret palace”-like Launch Control Center and below that another nine stories’ worth of nuclear attack-proof space suspended in the ground and fortified by three foot thick concrete and stainless steel mesh.

In Norway another secretive site formerly used by NATO recently listed for sale as well. The $17.3 million Olavsvern Naval Base boasts 145,000-square feet of surface building space but the 25,000-square fot quay carved out of the face of a mountain is what would inspire a villain to use this locale as a hideout. Built in 1967 and costing $494 million, the massive mountainside storage space has a dry dock for submarines, water-filled pathways and an extensive tunnel system.

Cold War sites too extreme for your taste? San Francisco, Calif. has a $4 million Mediterranean style house overlooking Presidio National Park from its quiet child-friendly cul-de-sac. Walk down the stairs of the 1913 house’s main floor and a restored Speak Easy greets you.